Looks like the phantom downticker found a new victim. How childish can you get? So be it, I can live…
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Exactly. How different would it be if we had an enemy choose our system of power generation?
Why are we fixing something that isn’t broken? And then why are we choosing the least effective and the costliest…
Now that’s a pantry I like, not a carrot in sight. And no refrigeration in those days either!
Real love and devotion to each other. We hear about the divorces and cheating of celebrities but hardly ever of…
Presumably Mr Mathieson goes onto the sex offenders register now, wonder if he needed a working with children certification to run a caravan park.
Yet another English cricketer – Harry Brook this time – claiming a win at The Oval will constitute a “moral victory” over Australia tantamount to retaining the Ashes.
I’ve checked the MCC’s rules, just to confirm…no, “moral victory” isn’t mentioned.
That a batsman must stay in his crease until the ball is declared dead is, however.
Five star in Asia is like -1 star in the West.
“In my opinion, Abbott was so pissed off, he weighing the idea of knocking the fcker into the next town.”
That exchange showed how inert Abbott often was when being smeared, ridiculed and mocked by his ideological enemies. Whilst Abbott should not have knocked Riley physically, he could have and he should knocked, monstered and bludgeoned Riley verbally. He didn’t, it was an ill omen of what became his very passive prime ministership. He was frequently passive when being smeared by leftist scum. Read my lips, being passive in the face of leftist smear merchants DOES NOT WORK. One of the reasons why we love Trump here is because he throws it back. Perhaps conservative and right of centre politicians in this country could take a leaf out of the Trump handbook? Oh and Nigel Farage is ramping up the calls for the whole NatWest board to resign. Farage rightly didn’t accept the milky and maggoty apology from Ms Rose two days ago, with the result that Ms Rose resigned yesterday, and Farage is continuing with the attacks on NatWest. Good. That’s how you fight the left.
There has been lots of babble tonight about the supposed qualities of Abbott. There are none.
Abbott may have been a ‘beautiful man’ in a fanciful Hollywood sense, but in reality he was confused, weak, vulnerable to minority grievance nonsense, and sold out the millions of voters who put him in power on the basis of their expectations that he would lead us to a restoration of democracy.
Contrast that to Ian Cook on Credelin tonight. Steely eyed, take no prisoners – someone is going to jail, a wronged man who does not suffer the irrelevant doubts experienced by weak Abbott.
Stand Ian. Australia needs leaders not soul mothers.
Nigel Farage banking saga – ‘The deeper we get, the bigger the story!’
If you read the article I posted this morning on JPMorgan Chase debanking Dr. Mercola’s business, it wasn’t just his business, it was also his personal accounts, his family’s accounts and his top employees and their families’ accounts! This is just beyond belief. They have to be held to account somehow.
It used to be possible to stay in palaces in India with commensurate service for ridiculously low prices.
Probably not any more though.
One of the “must see” events for every quilter and stitcher was the Tokyo show held in the Dome every January.
Rock’n’roll.
The groupies are hard core.
Must be hitting close to home.
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bons
Jul 27, 2023 7:35 PM
Yep.
A simple spreading of the nose across the face?
Yes, probably.
But a bit of finger pokey in the chest and a verbal barrage, along the lines of …
I doubt that would have done him any harm.
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Vivek is without a doubt, the smartest and most energetic candidate I’ve seen for a very long time. He’s actually smarter than the Trumpster.
This guy is Trump without the bits that send his opposition totally nuts.
Dismantling the FBI and why.
Absolutely brilliant.
In year 1.
And the Dept of Ed?
Why? It can’t be reformed.
The result?
His even thought about the foreign students issue.
Lord, he’s a top rate thinker.
It’s exactly right. The sector would rather remain with the old reactors than go for nee ones because of the regulatory burden.
And he doesn’t require congressional authority for these moves.
The best though til last. Oh yes.
Tough decision. A choice between a really good, decent candidate who deserves to win because of the appalling treatment, revenge , fraud and lies, or the brightest candidate in generations.
Let’s not forget he is a Catholic, too.
Chatting this morning to a stalwart of my local parish who in the past has been a strong advocate of the vax but currently is hoarse-voiced and battling some kind of heavy lurgi. Not for the first time.
Before Covid we had a young assistant priest who brought refreshing energy and was an unapologetic traditionalist in his preaching and choice of liturgical music.
He moved on then Covid hit. She mentioned with barely hidden scorn that he’d refused to get the vax and (her version) been forced out of his parish in the far western reaches of Melbourne. He’d then been given the option of Malvern but that came to nothing for the same reason. Anyway, it looks as if he’s found sanctuary elsewhere which is good news. Fortunately catholic priests don’t have an employment contract and answer to a higher authority than parish busybodies.
Right from the start. Wasn’t he the one who got rid of General Flynn?
Was Mike Pence a fifth columnist in the White House?
That was exactly what I thought when watching the McConnell video this morning, “bloody hell, he reminds me of Abbott after the Riley smear”.
One of my best holidays was part 5 star, part borderline backpacking, part travelling with friends, part travelling by myself.
I think the mix was what made it so great.
Plus falling in love with a Hungarian girl in Germany who was jaw droppingly beautiful.
She had the bluest eyes…you’d think they were CGI.
“Let’s not forget he is a Catholic, too.”
That’s one of his qualities! Look Abbott is a highly decent man, he was a fantastic opposition leader, but sadly he was a mediocre PM.
I’m sure this will make sense to someone. My only thought on the subject is that nature keeps what works and discards what doesn’t.
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He said former President Donald J. Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, couldn’t bring her charges to heel.
Not quite.
In part, she was a retard.
The other part was she wanted to deliver a charter schools/schools choice program that was nothing like what people like Blake Masters & America First propose and more in-line with the corporate model that Bill Gates has been promoting.
Roger:
I’m waiting for a bright spark* to come up with a conversion kit to run the solar panels for which we are getting sod all in return to run directly to an EV. They’re both DC, so I can’t see it would be impossibly complicated.
* See what I did there? I made a funny.
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@jc:
“Five star in Asia is like -1 star in the West.”
Have you been to Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon or Taipei or anywhere in Japan since about 1960?
As long as the bedding is clean, the beer cold and the coffee rich, it is all good.
If I want solace in the great outdoors, I stay home in Oz and seek out a nice patch of bush-land beside a river or billabong, or the red sandhill country west of Windorah..
Though, as P. J. O’Rourke quipped:
“If the outdoors is so great, why don’t the homeless like it very much?”
Re. Kevin Spacey, Douglas Murray says it best…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3f_kCDALEM
Steve trickler
Jul 27, 2023 7:18 PM
Related: Have you seen the following, Steve? (Plus the original).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edv_bNEaYTQ
Musically, it’s a bit blah, but the lyrics have triggered some interesting conversations among reactors.
I’ve been wanting to write a Cat post about it for some time, but I’m not prepared to cop the ridicule at the moment.
Yeah, I’ve been to two out of three. Have you?
And you regard that as five star, yes? Incidentally, the coffee is appalling from what I recall.
A bit late to the party as I’ve been looking after my grand-daughter all day but I’m also a huge Tudor (and Stuart) fan.
It probably started way back in the early 70s when my parents let me stay up and watch the outstanding TV series The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R with marvellous performances by Keith Michell and Glenda Jackson as the English monarchs.
I have enjoyed catching up on various TV series and movies over the years about this incredibly interesting and momentous period of English history.
Like Cassie I am/was very offended by the recent Anne Boleyn TV series and it appeared to have tanked. I’m also English by birth and had no desire or need to watch it as it was an affront to the culture I was brought up on.
Simply to me it appeared to be racist and objectionable.
JC at 7:44.
The same argument could be made here for the Federal Department of Education, and big chunks of the Elf Department, too.
Yeah, I believe it as it sounds credible. Aliens have the technology, traveling a decent distance that would be measured in light years, but they crashed in the Mojave desert.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1684250432879616000
Simply to me it appeared to be racist and objectionable.
I think it’s another manifestation of the bLIARite ‘rubbing the right’s nose in diversity’. Someone remarked here some time ago that bLIAR was evil. I believe that to be the case.
Dot:
That’d be nice, but “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” a phrase made popular by Carl Sagan who reworded Laplace’s principle, which says that “the weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness”
(Wiki)
Looks to be a little chilly in Brisbane tonight.
Payne Haas is dominating the Roosters pack.
“Yeah, I believe it as it sounds credible. Aliens have the technology, traveling a decent distance that would be measured in light years, but they crashed in the Mojave desert.”
LOL..yes. One of my favourite Youtubers is called Metatron. He does historical videos, an Italian guy who now lives in the US. His stuff is good, really good. The other day he was lamenting the decline of the History and Discovery Channels, which now seems to simply channels devoted to UFO conspiracy gunk, and he gave an example of a History Channel programme about Aliens arriving here and how they built Stonehenge! Imagine that! As Metatron says, they have the technology to build spacecraft to traverse the universe, and they arrive here and build Stonehenge! Yeah righto.
OCO:
I just did it and I’m waiting for the results.
Hopefully China will suddenly be over run by armies of Bob Bots.
Kevin Spacey’s best movie was LA Confidential.
Payne Haas is putting together two statistically impossible back to back seasons.
This coincides with him not drinking for that time.
And his mother being behind bars, looking down the barrel of a lengthy prison sentence for killing three people whilst being drunk & unlicensed & on parole for other drink & neg driving charges.
Jorge the idea that would be no place for a young traditional priest in the Melbourne archdiocese is scoffable.
Archbishop Comensoli gave his blessing to the continuation of Latin Masses in Melbourne and with the current shortages, he’d find a home regardless, nasty plenary council types notwithstanding.
Thancho, “so we’ve eliminated bestiality, then”. Hold on, wasn’t he up for the Lying Slapper. You’d have to be pretty sick to go there.
Kevin Spacey’s best movie was LA Confidential.
Seven.
I’d argue his best film performance was in The Usual Suspects; although L.A. Confidential may be the best film he appeared in.
Both are amongst my favourite films from the 90s.
Seven was such a great movie.
David Fincher.
One of the best.
They’re both complete garbage.
Kevin Spacey doesn’t do bad movies. LA Confidential is a movie I watch once a year. I loved Guy Pierce in it, so uptight. Rusty too. KS in The Usual Suspects is good too
“It probably started way back in the early 70s when my parents let me stay up and watch the outstanding TV series The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R with marvellous performances by Keith Michell and Glenda Jackson as the English monarchs.”
Yes, you can’t go past either of them, both are superb. They didn’t play with history. They stuck to facts.
Last year there was an excellent three part documentary series on SBS about the Boleyn family and how the family rose to influence and power at the venal Tudor court of Henry VIII. It stuck to the facts. The Boleyn family had originally been minor East Anglian gentry*, but Anne’s father and grandfather both married “up”, and Anne’s father, Thomas Boleyn, married Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk Thomas and Elizabeth had three children, Mary, Anne and George. The series was interesting viewing, and quite sad, given what happened. All of Henry’s wives had endured tragedy and had sad lives, but Anne was executed only days after her brother George, both accused of incest with each other, and Anne also accused of sleeping with four other men (who were tortured and executed), all of them trumped up charges, charges led by her uncle, the venal Duke of Norfolk. Anne and George’s executions shattered the family. The Tudor Court under Henry VIII was a very dangerous place, and many aristocratic families preferred to stay away.
* Maybe the producers and directors of the farcical programme with a black Anne Boleyn confused Anglia with Angola, hence the decision to have a black actress play Anne, but I know for a fact that Anne was born in Anglia, not Angola, and she was very, very white.
Is this really something to have an issue with?
Humans range from Prokofiev, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Wilberforce and then you have Hitler, Stalin, Florida Man, people who get caught on satirical websites trying to hire a hitman to kill their 3-year-old…and most of Reddit.
You should see what Matt Gaetz said.
Sagan was rather wet, but Laplace was very, very smart. He created what we now call Bayesian probability. If you have a strong prior that a proposition is false, then you do need strong evidence to conclude that it’s likely to be true. This is just a mathematical way of stating sane human intuitions.
Yes Cassie what happened to the Boleyn’s children was tragic – remember Mary Boleyn was a mistress of Henry VIII before he set eyes on her sister.
I had little sympathy for their father who appeared to use his children to further his political ambitions in Henry VIII’s court.
JC the aliens only crashed coz they read the Earth had been slated for removal in Douglas Adams treatise on interplanetary travel.
Muddy
Jul 27, 2023 7:57 PM
Steve trickler
Jul 27, 2023 7:18 PM
Related: Have you seen the following, Steve? (Plus the original).
Musically, it’s a bit blah, but the lyrics have triggered some interesting conversations among reactors.
I’ve been wanting to write a Cat post about it for some time, but I’m not prepared to cop the ridicule at the moment.
Yes, I’ve heard this but not the original. It’s not my style of music but the message resonates …that’s all that matters.
As for copping ridicule? F8ck that, don’t worry about it. Fire away! ( :
“I had little sympathy for their father who appeared to use his children to further his political ambitions in Henry VIII’s court.”
He did, and in the process he destroyed his family. The Seymour family did the same.
“If it is strange, it is likely false”
Doesn’t have the elegance of a differential equation. Would he flip out if he saw the quantum eraser experiment?
Most people’s intuition regarding their legal rights, how medicines work, the natural sciences and economics are often wrong.
The miasma theory of disease had to be disproven? Who proved it in the first place?
I remember seeing a four (?) part doco recreation of the Battle of Hastings several years ago.
Being a documentary you’d expect them to stick scrupulously to the facts as known (or at least not venture into extreme implausibility), but no, they had a black man playing a key member of Duke William of Normandy’s inner circle!
AI is the threat, not little green men.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/milla-sofia-ai-model-based-in-helsinki-taking-the-internet-by-storm-for-lifelike-instagram-posts-c-11389665
They still can’t get fingers and toes right.
Gilas/Lysander:
I also volunteered just to help storage and assist during the day, not heard anything yet.
Hope they haven’t forgotten us up here!
Naaa, I reckon they missed the left turn on Google maps. The idiots didn’t have the voice instruction. Big mistake, they should’ve used Apple map.
Talking about Google. Anyone see they’re quarterly result. FMD, they made:
Earnings per share (EPS) coming in at $1.44, ten cents higher than the forecasted $1.34.
Revenue, too, outstripped predictions at $74.6 billion versus an expected $72.82 billion.
Alphabet’s robust financial performance has triggered a positive market response, with the company’s shares trading up $5.79 in after-hours trading or 4.85%
They made US$22 billion in operating income for the quarter!
92 days = US$239 million a day.
Approx, US$10 million an hour
approx $167,000 per second.
Astonishing what some US firms make.
By hey, they don’t have any blue collar operations so it’s no biggie.
Matt Gaetz
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/26/matt-gaetz-investigated-ufo-incident-near-eglin-air-force-base/70470761007/
It is entirely curious and they need to get to the bottom of this. The possibilities range from fascinating and exciting to resignation and doom.
missed quotes.
I studied (with little success) Laplace Transforms at one point. Fortunately they did not come up in the exams.
AFAIK, they may be used in code breaking, but I am unaware of any other uses.
Is Kevin Spacey back in the good books again now that he is innocent?
I always enjoyed this scene.
K-PAX (2001) – Prot Diagrams Orbital Pattern K-PAX Takes Through Its Star System
For the record. All this current alien / ufo BS is geared for the MSM consuming sheep. As JC pointed out, it’s a deliberate distraction. In this day and age of HD phone cameras etc, all that we get on offer is grainy muck.
It’s a waste of time.
I take Matt Gaetz at his word and he says there is radar data to back his assertions up.
The most parsimonious explanation of the UAP stuff is that US taxpayers have funded exotic propulsion and energy-efficient systems & possibly FTL travel and they nor the rest of humanity are benefitting at all.
That in itself is a scandal and a major historical scandal at that.
There is at least 21 – 35 trillion USD of “missing” black budget money in the last 50+ years.
From Forbes in 2019:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2019/01/09/holding-u-s-treasuries-beware-uncle-sam-cant-account-for-21-trillion/
It sounds bizarre but I’m just noting the evidence.
Steve Trickler:
[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1945) Holocaust victims under U.S. Army medical cares.
Comment:
These atrocities can NEVER happen again!
My reply:
They’re happening again in China. Under Collectivism, Dachau and Ravensbruck are logical outcomes, not freak occurrences.
Farage a few hours ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGg8nohIhbw
For the life of me I have never understood why scenarists play loose with historical facts. It’s unnecessary as often the facts are far more interesting than some latter day writers re-interpretation or made-up version of them.
Academically I’m a historian and it p!sses me off no end.
Matt Walsh (the bane of trannies, groomers, the LGBQT lobby, and the man behind What is a Woman?) is seemingly right into the whole UFO/alien thing, but it’s hard to tell much of the time whether he is really serious about it or just tongue in cheek.
Complete garbage. Anyone who wants quality service and five star treatment will always pick Asia over Australia – whether its airports, dining, hotels, resorts, etc.
Its not wise to compare and make judgement on things you have never encountered.
Mostly, human intuitions are right, or we wouldn’t be here.
Would have contrasted nicely with the monobrow.
Disclaimer: Only ever noted Hungarian ladeees in Dracula films.
For that they would have to create worm holes. There’s not enough energy in the sun to create that.
My hunch, they saw flying geese in the formation they witnessed and the radar plays some sort of weird illusion. The other thing is that they were feeding bullshit to Matt. I’m not buying this bagel as it could be coming from the deep state like the CIA.
Almanac
At least, if you wish to counter my opinion try to be accurate. I wasn’t suggesting Australia as a comparison.
Difference between fast and slow thinking – fast thinking (intuition) will keep you alive but to make progress slow thinking is required.
See fast & slow thinking for more
More likely a distraction from the Biden revelations. Don’t look over there at the corruption, look here at UFOs.
I don’t believe aliens have visited planet earth. I think if they had, we’d know it.
JayZee – you wrote the West and that, for now, includes Australia so what you wrote is what I commented on. Perhaps it’s the lack of insight into Asia that made me assume you don’t have a passport or funds to enjoy first class experiences in Asia.
Crossie
I reckon there’s another angle to the UFO crap. There’s also been chatter that the US has reverse engineered alien technology. Maybe, other than helping to provide cover against the revelations about the Hiden crime family, it also helps scare the living shit out of Russia and China. These two could very well believe this bullshit.
Sucking in Matt G adds to credibility for the story line.
My daughter noted this week that with virtually every person on this earth now equipped with a high resolution phone camera and yet not a single shot of an alien or a UFO has been made public. It is rather curious.
I mentioned “the West” so why make australia the focus. I didn’t mention just one country. I commented on Asia.
That’s more accurate.
The one thing I can’t forget about Asia is that the streets smell like shit. They need to work on their sewage systems some more.
Second? I thought prostitution was the oldest?
Some of that Dezinformatsiya directed at the enemy? Yeah, why not?
I dunno.
Have you looked under Googlery’s raincoat?
Or even perhaps, we’d never know it. Any intelligence that could cross inter or intra gallaxy would be well equipped with nanotechnology that wouldn’t even be visible to our naked eye. The idea that a couple of non-earthers crashed in a US desert is laughable. Their manually adjusted stabilizers failed.
Lizzie I don’t know if its true or not but there are reports in The Cameron Highland Times of a Beare pooing in the woods but others have said they are mistaken, it was a full moon.
An excellent point, if I may say.
Naturally the reaction to this from some quarters will be ‘well you’re not following TruSted BloggeRs or you’d know they live beneath us’ or some similar keep-the-flame-alive honkler clown exclamation.
Hmmm.
The age old “over exposed fillem” or “I was shaking so much I blurred the image”.
Which carries zero weight these days.
I agree with this …
you got primed and boosted for pre-defined immune-response
then you felt crook and took a test
and yeah … hope you had a nice week off
If they had they’d have taken one look at the state of the world and said bugger that it ain’t worth it.
Smelly kipper-munchers sent in to bat after losing the toss.
3 for 70ish with half an hour to go before lunch. Three dropped catches, including one dolly by the soon to be ex-player midget cheat though.
Bowled out for 180 if this keeps up. Bazball is alive.
Has there ever been a more distasteful, disgusting vid than this, in the Daily Mail? (Of course, other than Hiden making moves on children.)
Overboard fat women in Vermont shoplift. They even can’t slow jog to the car as they’re so fat. I can’t make out what’s behind the knee of the fattest slob. Is it a deformed leg caused by over-feeding or is it something she stuck there from the lift?
Don’t watch the women play soccer.
Awful skills in attack and defence.
I think it was Cowiforn-i-ay.
The home of the naked freeway shooters.
To a certain patron of a country pub – if you must pat the girl who brings you your meal on her bottom, make sure her brother isn’t sitting at the next table……
What is their diving and writhing like?
That is the real benchmark.
Sounds like the AFLW.
Atrocious skills, yet apparently a few years ago they were wanting pay
commensurate with the AFL.
A couple of years later and the sh*t hits the fan.
Plenty of material in the channel below worth checking out.
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3 – 2 vs Matildas in the WWC. Didn’t really deserve a win given their odd tactics (hoof it into the centre for nobody to head, again & again) and lack of pace.
Our lesbians were hopeless. Next time we should ring in a transsexual or two.
And Harry Brook tries to steady things down a bit.
Oh, no he doesn’t.
48 off 41 balls.
Seven fours, two sixes.
…
I guess when you look at it, he has taken 40 off nine balls, and 8 off the other 32 balls.
Slacker.
This Tim Mathieson thing.
Do we need a Royal Commission into randy hair-dressers?
Mind you, who hasn’t occasionally accidentally stumbled into the front of a lady’s dress and inadvertently got tangled up with a nipple?
It happens.
I hit peak bogan today….
Kareoke time again so I fired up men at works biggest hit….
All I needed was a packet of Winnie reds tucked under the t shirt and a mullet and I would have been set.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
It was either that or Khe Sanh
UFOs are squirrels.
If the US really has had alien technology recovered from crashed craft then we would see this in technology development. We haven’t. Certainly not anything outside of physics that we’ve known about for a century, and technological progress has been sedate and derivative since WW2. No mysterious step changes at all.
I’m also sceptical that anyone who can traverse interstellar distances keeps on crashing their scout vessels willy nilly like a bunch of pissed P platers.
Wake me when there’s something tangible. Like Hunter’s laptop. Did I mention squirrels? How amazing they’re so prolific right now! Weird huh?.
Mark Dice:
Did Jason Aldean Cave to Wokeness By Censoring His Own Music Video for “Try That In A Small Town?
The best movie review of the worst movie ever made, Alien Covenant.
I cannot stress how shit this movie was, but the great Scottish drunk apparently can.
Anyone who ever wore a mullet should have their head displayed on a pike, as a warning .
Livestock news (the Tele):
You just know this is going to get better:
And:
Perchance the ladeee goat was upset after having been led on by Mr Danalkis, then dumped for a bloke – in the manner commonly used by airline pilots.
Perhaps he’s a messy urinator.
Yes. Well. This is what happens when you let Kiwis into the pantry. Three and a half years he got. Perhaps the ladeee goat will write him a letter.
I ask you.
What materials do you need?
OK, maybe a stool for the taller cows.
But what else?
…
This is just passing curiosity, mind.
I assume that is not the former SBS news-reader?
Tickler
In all these years, I didn’t realize you were a Francophile until now.
Male sheep.
Male.
Come on, man.
Straight bestiality is fine up to a point.
But gay bestiality is a bridge too far.
As Jeff Fenech used to say … “I love ewes”.
The dead outnumber the living 70:1 and we have the most humans ever.
So he’s bisexual then?
How would they know the goat was in shock?
It has its quirks, but you’d have to be a terrible snob not to see how much people here try to attend to every small detail, and to provide the quality of service you don’t get in Europe or the US claiming ‘classic’ Five Star. Sharing your good times with a wider range of people and cultures than you get in some European dump with tabs on itself and full of climatey change snobbery for its true-believing Chermanic and Scando customers with their private planes, to say nothing of entitled wealthy Brits, is one of the better aspects too. When Hairy was working and we weren’t paying we stayed in some very superior places indeed in both the US and the UK, and in some the stink of stale sweat in the pillows was beyond belief. -1 from me there for that.
This one’s for Pedro.
Winfield Green never really caught on for some reason.
Deep state?
21 – 35 trillion USD gone missing.
That’s egregious theft and it dwarfs any graft you see openly discussed.
The US Army has an annual budget of ~< 700 bn USD.
The public have no idea how the money is spent. It could be men who stare at goats or useful things like meta materials and miniaturised nuke reactors.
That’s why it needs to be investigated.
Now what if it really is the Chinese flying those things? The public have a right to know.
Liz
I’m just taking the piss. Enjoy the holiday in mosquito central but don’t come back bawling if you’re riddled with malaria. 🙂
Also humanity nearly died out at one stage.
Good old human intuition eh?
Witch trials and mass hysteria.
Comparing human intuition to Bayesian statistics is rather peculiar.
My brother went to St. Mary’s High School. It wasn’t built until after I left Penrith High, which in my day served families along the Western railway line back to Toongabbie, over to Warragamba Dam (being built) and across to Plumpton. The only other high schools were at Parramatta and Richmond.
They didn’t have milking sheds when my brother went there.
That sad lunatic on ice, warped by the foulness of the internet.
Awful for schoolkids to even get a hint of what had happened there.
Even in the roughest schools we had a lot more innocence back then.
I didn’t.
Don’t forget, it’s a volunteer military, so they’re forced to pay above-slave wages. Cost of keeping such a military population would be:
call it an average of US$100,000 per personnel, when you factor in all costs, and that’s US$140 billion
Of course you are, JC. I know that. But in case others didn’t, I wanted to stand up for the people in those countries to our north. They are unfailingly polite and helpful to Australian tourists, who don’t always deserve that consideration.
And to put the boot into ‘the Europeans’ who can at times give me the tom tits.
Back in boarding school, the greatest insult was to accuse another kid of sneaking down to the farm at night. A smart comeback was required to avoid smears sticking.
Dunno. Or more correctly, no.
I’m not sure there are millions of people who ‘stumbled’ across bestiality on teh webs and thought ‘Geez, how long’s this been going around? This is great’ and stepped off on a career of rooting children’s farm animals.
Once again – drugs and excess booze enhances existing traits. It doesn’t make new ones.
Last month we visited Portugal. They’re amazing people. So exceedingly polite and kind. I had only one altercation which was with the Air France fat chick at the counter. What a totally, fat rude bitch. She was a frog.
JC
Jul 27, 2023 10:29 PM
Tickler
In all these years, I didn’t realize you were a Francophile until now.
It’s hard not to be impressed by the architecture at the time. Paris is just one example.
Been there, done that. New Guinea early 1960’s. Sri Lanka early 1970’s
Cure or prevention was lotsa quinnine. Bled from every mucosal orifice, but cured.
I think I’m probably immune. Hairy too from doing the hippie trip from UK to Aus in the mid 1970’s.
And an architectural classicist to boot. What’s going on here Tickler? Pretty soon, you’ll be writing for the New Yorker’s style and society section.
JC
Jul 27, 2023 10:54 PM
It’s hard not to be impressed by the architecture at the time.
And an architectural classicist to boot. What’s going on here Tickler? Pretty soon, you’ll be writing for the New Yorker’s style and society section.
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Have a gander at this.
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Rick88888888:
This film is a compilation of restored, enhanced & colorized film footage involving the construction of the Empire State Building (ESB) in New York nearly a century ago.
It shows how the base of the building is laid, how all parts are produced in nearby steel works, how steel parts are riveted together, the dangers of working at such high construction altitudes and the completion of the ESB.
What many people probably do not know is that the ESB was built on the spot where the famous first version of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel used to be at 5th Avenue (opened in 1897). In 1931 the hotel re-opened in a new location at Park Avenue.
The ESB started with the destruction of the hotel on 22 January 1930, after which the actual construction started on 7 March 1930. It was completed at record speed after only 13.5 months on 11 April 1931 and officially opened on 1 May 1931.
The building was designed in Art-Deco style, is 381 meters high and has 102 floors. Achieving such a height was only possible because of the use of a steel framework.
As an important symbol of New York City, the building has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The various original B&W footage has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, restored, enhanced and colorized with contemporary Artificial Intelligence software.
Stunning footage of the construction of New York’s Empire State Building in color (opened in 1931)
Here’s a thought experiment.
What if they believe in an ethical rule like non interference until we develop the requisite technology but they bend the rules and drop hints from time to time?
We have the same debates about the South Sentinel Islanders.
There almost certainly is extra terrestrial life. Intelligent? Interested in us?
This galaxy has at least 100 billion to 400 billion stars and there are over two trillion galaxies in the known universe. The universe is at least 250 times the size of the observable universe and may be infinitely large.
There at least 50 trillion trillion stars with each tending to have at least one planet given recent observations of exoplanets.
(If I can count, that’s roughly the same number of stars and likely planets as there is atoms in 1000 g of graphite).
You have to keep in mind that these estimates keep on going up. In 1987, there was no evidence of exoplanets.
Also it should be kept in mind that life on earth exists in a range of values – we don’t exist only at 23 degrees C.
The range of values needs to be permissible, not an average point on a polar or equatorial extreme.
Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine
What is the point of her? She never answers a single slightly challenging question. You may as well ask questions of the wall.
Dot, dropping hints isn’t crash landing in the American desert.
Also, I think we’re alone.
The other thing is that theoretical physicists say that the universe only becomes observable when we look at i, and otherwise it doesn’t exist. This accords more with the simulation thesis.
These days St Marys is a senior high school teaching only years 11 and 12. It is considered a very good school though not as hard to get into as Penrith Selective High.
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Vent alert.
Went to a “Mental Health First Aid” presentation at our Cathlick High School.
Absolutely woeful, pissweak, condescending and self-serving affair from her second Welcome To Country to the 87th minute where she mentioned in passing “practise good health habits, and a twenty minute walk can do wonders sometimes.” By then I was quietly furious, luckily mine wife steered me straight out the door before I could ask-
“Look, a month ago a lot of us parents heard another presentation here of how “technology” is a black hole for kids’ wellbeing, and so it’s important to break the feeling of reliance kids can have with their “devices”, and fortify family and community relationships and physical activity to counterbalance it. Now, even though this is titled “Mental Health First Aid”, you’ve just spent an hour and a half telling us to get our kids logged onto websites and subscribed to apps and liking and following you for updates, because only your expert class can fix mental health problems. You haven’t mentioned diet, you haven’t mentioned exercise, and I’ll note that you’re seriously obese.”
So, maybe it wasn’t a question, more an observation, but I felt like giving the whole crowd a bit of Jerry McGuire, including the lovely but hopelessly naïve “Head of Wellness” – did no-one think it’s disingenuous? Did no-one notice the contradictions from the last info night from the Wellness mob, the Digital Risk Awareness? Did no-one else bristle at the fact that parents were being told “don’t try anything with your kids if they’re a bit down, send them to us and we’ll sort out everything”?
Did no-one else feel that the school has just shucked a few thousand bucks for this massive midwit to huck her business at us?
Re Five Star quirks in Asia, at breakfast in the Highlands Hotel, which was sit-down silvers-ervice, I ordered porridge, to be followed by their special omelette. Hairy simply went for the Grand Breakfast (ie the full English). The porridge arrived, laced with coconut and fruits, and it was very nice. My omelette arrived after it, and all was well. The next morning, I asked for porridge again followed by the omelette, and they delivered an omelette first. I said I wanted porridge first, but I would eat the omelette first this time. I ate it was they carefully watched and then they produced the porridge, which they said was late due to a need to make more of it. After that they produced another omelette for me, which I sent back as surplus to order. The day after that Hairy and I both ordered porridge, followed by omelette, which caused considerable consternation. After a long wait, our porridge finally arrived with a flourish and much smiling and waiterly self-congratulation amongst the three who were attending to us. I tried mine, and it was cold so we had to send it back for heating. We then ate our omelettes, which had arrived, and then the porridge returned, so we ate that, and then another waiter arrived bearing .. two more omelettes. We decided that tailorist principles of organisation had not yet arrived in this part of Malaysia, but the deep concern and anxiety they had to do the right thing by us weird Europeans who had sequenced eating habits was impressive.
Or unable to stray more than 10 metres from the toilet for months.
Anyway … enjoy!
Lizzie, 5-star (or any star rating) measures many things, however it does not measure service.
There is a reasonable expectation that a 5-star rating will be accompanied by excellent service, however there is no requirement.
Having only ever seen country motels & regional pubs, you can imagine my shock at discovering the service & attitude in 5-star international hotels was nowhere near the standard of the bush, & was in fact comparatively downright aloof, callous, tardy & disinterested.
Times have certainly changed out west, Crossie. I still have my school magazines from Penrith High 1955 and 1956. The quality of the writing and poetry was streets ahead of what kids write today.
Of course it wasn’t.
Sure.
I just took delivery of my Babylon Bee conspiracy theorists 37, “experts” 0 T-shirt.
There are three of the 37.
Picked up a fascinating paperback, “The Crowning Privilege”, by Robert Graves- a series of essays on professional standards in English poetry. Distracting mix of Tattler intrigue and wonderful poetry primer, I’m set up with a laptop in bed while mine wife is away, pulling up poems he mentions as he birls along.
Came on this phrase, about post-Restoration court where English tradition has been sniffed at and French styling is now all Romantic-
“the Age of Correctness, which in practice meant the Age of Obsequiousness, had begun.”
Price is probably a better indicator than any star rating, we find. Older five stars are often good value, as the service is good, the facilities, while used and often a bit tired, are all there, and the buildings are often rather fine, especially in Europe, but also can be so in grand old Asian palaces. We rather like the Small Luxury Hotels of the World brand because they are usually heritage places which have had a recent make-over.
If you shop around you can have a genuine five-star stay in Asia for the cost of a very average 4-star or even 3-star place in Europe. The US is slightly more price-competitive, and at least they don’t do the per person stunt that some of the Europeans still do, a hangover from the full-board pensiones and spas, I think.
The Brits still do the per-person charging quite a bit too.
One thing we’ve found here in Malaysia is that hotels don’t change cash and that not all facilities associated with them will take credit cards or charge to your room; you have to pay in cash, as we will pay in cash to the car and driver we’ve booked for four hours through the hotel for tomorrow. I had a bet with Hairy, which I lost, that the spa would also want casho, but he’s found out they don’t. My cost for losing is that he wants us to book a double massage, where he’ll come along too. Not game to go on your own, I tease him, this exceptionally modest man.
Bazball.
Results may vary.
I’ve just finished reading a deeply-yellowed old paperback I picked up at the last hotel in their book-exchange library. Called ‘A Mother’s War’, published in the mid-1980’s to great acclaim, it is by Fey Von Hassell, the daughter of one of the conspirator’s against Hitler in 1944. She and many others in the Von Stauffenberg group were seized by the Nazis and imprisoned. Her two children were removed from her and for eleven months in captivity she didn’t know where they were. What makes her tale so different is that she was part of what was termed ‘the kin group’ of famous and influential people picked up in the sweep as relatives of conspirators, who were also deemed traitors by mere kinship association. As ‘special’ prisoners they were kept on the move from one prison or another, including three concentration camps (with special privileges), but also at times maltreated and half-starved. Her accounts of the relationships between these well-known people adds a sideline, an insider view, to our understanding of the Nazi fear of and appeasement towards the old order and its traditional aristocracy and leadership whom they knew despised the Nazis. She was German but her father was an Ambassador to Italy and she grew up Italian. Her father was executed and her diplomat husband joined the Partisans.
Can you imagine the size of the nose by now? Last year it hit a record of 17.5 feet.
Sorry, folks. New laptop still on set up, so cartoons will take another day or so.
Where’s Tom?
Bugger.
Hunter plea deal was unconstitutional and corrupt.
Noreika was right to reject it.
Top o’ the mornin’ early Cats! The body clock is still set to somewhere in Europe, so not letting the grass grow under my feet – the laundry is humming ready for the sunrise.
Tom’s laptop is still stuffed? No matter…here’s another meme, this time for the anti-social amongst us.
I only go to 5 Star if someone else is paying. 😀
Thanks, Calli! I relate to that.
Starting the day off with a laugh is always good.
Speaking of good things, has Macbeth reached the ton?
I love the That’s Believable site. It has a Pythonesque flavour.
Here’s an interesting fact.
‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?
– George Carlin
Flying today.
Who TF can be addicted to this?
It’s like constant feeling of drying cement in the guts and sub cockle regions.
Hope I don’t wig out too badly.
THAT M’F’ER IS NOT REAL! HE IS A REPTOID AND FREEMASON!
LOL
Who gets up at 5:30 AM to downvote Calli?
Sad!
In answer to your question, Dot.
And…top of the mornin’ to Net Zero too!
Then, their life changes, they go to an Ag College and find allies.
With your love of cars and now Parisian architecture, I thought you may have posted this video Mr Trickler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJJP8Ka6jY
I hope it works. If not go to Youtube and search for the following: Claude Lelouch – C_était un Rendez-vous (1976)
Tributes for Sinead O Connor?
Leftist women are truly miserable.
Here endeth the lesson.
News item on Chanel Nein! Newz basically used targeted violence as a reason to prod for banning gel blasters!
Ahead of their time:
Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road
Seville Safari
We have just visited the Donana National Park, south-west of Seville. It is the off season. During the winter, we would have seen a lot more animal/bird life including flamingos, lynx and mongoose.
However, on the safari in a 4-wheel drive truck, we travelled along the beaches/dunes, cork forests and dry marsh areas. We saw wild deer, pigs, horses, cattle (the origin of the American long horn) and some eagles, oystercatchers etc.
We stayed overnight in a village called El Rocio which was like the “wild west” – sand roads, very hot, no-one to be seen between 3-6.
In the very late afternoon, lots of people rode through on dressage horses – a Saturday night, so perhaps parade time? It had a wonderful church, which is the focus of its famous annual Romería, the Rocío Pilgrimage at Pentecost – visited by thousands on foot or with horses and decorated carts. It really was a special place.
Now on to Gibraltar….
Like if hubby pays?
Sounds amazing, TE. Hope to get to Gibraltar next June (maternal grandmother was born there and I have a little piece of The Rock in an old brooch of hers).
Like Stanley, another little piece of the far flung Empire.
Corporate stuff, JC. Best 5 star so far – the Palace in the Lost City, South Africa.
Signs on the doors “Do Not Feed the Monkeys!”.
I don’t like staying in hotels.
Give me an airbnb any time, even the ones up three flights of leaning stairs.
You are doing some very interesting things in Spain TE.
The advantage of car hire, perhaps.
I’ve made a note of those villages outside Madrid.
There are buses, if one is sufficiently enthused.
I had a rule, only travel to places with decent toilet facilities.
I think I’ll continue to stick to that.
Stuck on 99 for three years I’m afraid.
That reminds me calli, I took my father on a golfing and safari trip to South Africa after my stepmother died and we stayed at Cascades in Sun City, down the road from the Palace of the Lost City. The porter took us up to our room on the 8th floor and warned us not to leave the windows open because the baboons could get in and trash the room. My father was skeptical and said to me that they say that to wind up the tourists.
We then went to the Lost City golf course for a round and as we were coming up the 18th we saw a troupe of baboons happily sitting on the roof of the 3-storey clubhouse. Dad paused and said “maybe the porter was right”.
‘ Oh Julia Darling, a strange thing happened at work today, yadda yadda yada, her nipple popped into my mouth and she was not happy. More tea?’
‘You yadda yadda’d over the best part’
‘I mentioned the nipple’.
I’m currently getting quotes for restumping, ouch, and got into conversation with one gentleman who is a resident of inner Melbourne and I suppose doing quite nicely.
Somehow we got onto the subject of the invoice and he mentioned seeing Barry Humphries at Dallas Brooks, iirc, who did an acknowledgement to the Pratt Family…pretty much eye to eye on the issue, he grew up in a rural location and had harmonious contact with Aboriginal families.
Reminder too that Aboriginal stories of loss and suffering (Truth Telling) are not unique.
His great-grandparents here in Australia lost six of their children in a bushfire.
I’m with you Rosie, hotels are like buses and aircraft. Only use them if I have to.
Delta might have some suggestions.
Pauline …… LOL!
https://youtu.be/9bXJeAPPk_4
Don’t know if anyone else has linked to John Campbells review of a peer reviewed paper out of Switzerland. Excellent study that unequivocally demonstrates that the mRNA vaxxes are causing myocardial injury to the jabbees at an extremely high rate 2.8%, high troponin levels and whilst no deaths were recorded during the study, John notes that as soon as those doing the study became aware of the myocardium damage, they warned the victims(?) not to exercise until the damage had healed and troponin levels had returned to normal.
I can’t see how the Australian Gov or any medical authority can continue to promote these ‘vaccines’ but I bet they will. The covid madness and the subsequent enforced jabbing of almost entire populations will be seen as one of the greatest medical disasters of all time. We really need Nuremburg style courts and punishments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_RTf_ForA
Crickit update.
Soap dodgers rolled for 283.
The Carbon Footprints are 1/61.
The “1” in 1/61 is the cheating midget houso ranga.
Which is excellent.
What’s the bag limit for bank CEOs? Nigel Farage is now up to two. Be nice if all those other bank CEOs who refused him an account are in the firing line too.
Farage Brings Down Second Bank Boss: Coutts CEO Resigns in Wake of Debanking Scandal (27 Jul)
Next that’s needed is a guarantee that anyone who requests an account can have one, since it is an essential service now. If someone is dodgy let plod sort it out.
calli at 4:39
Or if your expensing it. Think we were somewhere 5 star when we went to Auckland for a few days. Only real memory was the bath plumbing seemed unnecessarily complex. Got pretty severe jet lag as everyone was on summer time. The client management made the trip every couple of months. Quite happy to leave that to others.
Even if you’re a Centrelink ‘client’ you need a bank account
Mutt of the week- proper lurcher, maybe with a dash of Staff.
in FNQ, but they’ll fly at a discount.
Two weeks ago I saw the specialist who looked after me through my bout of myocarditis after my fourth jab. He was in no doubt it was the vaccine. The effects lasted close to a year and I am still struggling to regain pre myocarditis fitness. Energy levels are still really low. Fortunately the scans and stress test showed no damage to my heart but I am on chlorestrol medication now.
Surely this will be the end of him.
Please.
Lizzie
There was a show based on their travels on SBS a while ago. Other members of the party included von Stauffenberg’s wife and children, a German colonel imprisoned for dissent, and some British spies illegally snatched from Holland before the German invasion. In the SBS show, the group ended up in Italy, where the colonel contacted a colleague in Kesselring’s HQ, and organised a rescue effort.
The Lutheran pastor Bonhoeffer was with them for a much of the journey, but was taken away and executed before they left Germany.
Referendum | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
What can I say about the Matildas? .. Just not good enuf! .. FFS! ..average attack, very, very poor defence and a coach who leaves their most promising attack player on the bench until 5 minutes before full-time …!
Tekweni, I had two jabs after the prick Andrews forced me to do it, it was either lose my business, or take the youngest boy out of school and live on charity, so I did it at the last minute, the local pharmacist jabbed me, I told her that I was doing under duress and didn’t want it, but she jabbed me anyway.
Afterwards, developed severe shingles on my head and in the worst possible place, heart palpitations for 12 months and ever since a real loss of energy. In the few weeks after the jab my wife took me to the hospital three times, I was really crook but no specific illness. The first two times the hospital tested me for the wuflu and when it was negative refused to admit me and sent me home. The 3rd time they admitted me, kept in an isolation room and treated me like I had Ebola, again I tested negative and the discharged me, they had no interest at all in whatever was making me sick, the only thing that mattered was covid. I have only started to get back my energy and an interest in life in the last few months, even so I’m still not the same.
I reported all these effects to the TGA but never heard anything, probably never will.
https://www.tga.gov.au/products/covid-19/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-safety-monitoring-and-reporting/reporting-suspected-side-effects-associated-covid-19-vaccine
Just as it’s awful for school kiddies to have to walk past dead bodies of gangsters who’ve just had their brains blown out – see the latest shooting in Sydney’s south west.
Thanks Fraser, you monumental f*ckwit!
By a process of elimination, presumably.
At the height of the panic the TGA was assuring Australians the incidence of myocarditis from the vaccines was “exceedingly rare.”
A pity you can’t sue the bastards.
Called ‘A Mother’s War’, published in the mid-1980’s to great acclaim, it is by Fey Von Hassell,
Impressed by the couple of reviews and found a copy thru Ebay .. $11.50 S/H ..
Are we allowed to call the Nigerian team the “dark horse” of the competition?
global warmingclimate change
climate emergency
climate crisis
global boiling!
Yes really. From the Sec Gen of the UN no less. The are really getting frustrated with the proles not listening to them.
What Comes After “Crisis”? (27 Jul)